Senior Software Developer (.NET)

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Job Description

Role: Senior Software Developer (.NET) (full or part time: at least 60% FTE)

Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery

Location: Manchester, Oxford, or Rotherham, UK.

Salary: £45-56k, plus target bonus of 8%

About Pearson

Our purpose: At Pearson we 'add life to a lifetime of learning' so everyone can realise the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. Our Purpose | Add Life to a Lifetime of Learning

Our company: Pearson was founded in 1844 and has been built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our 20,000+ employees are dedicated to creating the high-quality, digital-first, accessible and sustainable resources for lifelong learning.

Diversity: At Pearson we value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced as strengths and opportunities are equal and accessible.

Flexible working: Pearson is committed to hybrid working practices and has adopted flexible remote and virtual working. Where possible our employees can choose to manage their attendance to the office more flexibly.

About UK Assessment & Qualifications

We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services.

About the job

The position is for a Senior Developer to work on a combination of existing on-prem and transformed AWS-hosted cloud solutions, using .NET.

About you

We'd expect that you can demonstrate delivery of several business-critical projects as a full-stack developer, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban.

Key Skills & Experience

• Building backend services and Web APIs utilising C# with .NET
• Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code
• Mentoring more junior members of the team in overall software development
• Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements
• Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure application are successfully delivered to production
• Providing production support
• Persisting data using relational (SQL) and/or document databases
• Designing highly performant systems
• Understand modern application architectures and how they can be applied, like Microservice / Service Oriented Architectures
• Providing overall software architecture guidance in terms of best practice when it comes to development

Desirable Skills & Experience

• .Net Core or later versions
• Terraform
• Docker and containers
• Single page web applications using React
• Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications
• Jenkins
• NodeJS

The role is aligned to either our Rotherham, Oxford, Manchester or central London offices. Our Rotherham office is located at Junction 1 of the M18, making it commutable from Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Derby or Nottingham.

All our roles are hybrid working; for this role that means visiting your base office no more than once a week with the possibility of occasional travel to other Pearson sites, however, candidates must be a suitable commute from their base office.

We work a 37.5 hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST. School runs, etc can be accommodated. Other flexible working patterns can be considered, including part-time working and non-traditional hours. As we regularly work with global teams, particularly in India and the US, there may be the occasional need to accommodate meetings outside of core hours.

For this role there is a requirement to provide occasional out of hours support during business critical periods.

We actively encourage our staff to participate in at least 40 hours of training a year, and offer relevant AWS training and certification as part of this role.

Your benefits and rewards

Here at Pearson we offer a range of benefits, which include:

• 25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days); annual leave trading, +/- 5 days
• Annual Bonus
• Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age
• Life, private medical and dental care insurance options, plus free eye tests
• Stock/share purchase options
• Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies
• An employee wellbeing assistance programme
• Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts

Diversity and Inclusion at Pearson

We're committed to equity and opportunity, so that all learners can realise the life they imagine and see themselves in our services and products. We believe learning is a powerful force for change and that diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are. We're committed to addressing all forms of systematic racism, discrimination and inequality in everything we do.

We also believe in giving everyone in the company the chance to help shape a more inclusive culture, in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and in which everyone acts with integrity day-in, day-out. To learn more about Pearson's commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here.

Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience. We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity.

The information you provide will stay confidential and will be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process. We are a Stonewall Gold and Top 20 LGBT+ inclusive employer, Investors in People Gold, Race Charter signatory, Disability Confident employer and Working Mums Top Employer.